Items tagged:
Protected areas
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30x30 – a brave new dawn or a failure to protect people and nature?
The post-2020 global biodiversity framework (GBF) negotiations, concluding early next year, include a plan to nearly double protected areas to 30% of the planet by 2030. Joe Eisen and Blaise Mudodosi discuss whether the 30x30 target offers a false solution to the biodiversity crisis
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Does the global biodiversity framework offer a plan B for protected areas?
Ahead of IUCN’s World Conservation Congress, Phil Franks examines why – to date – strategies to halt biodiversity loss have largely failed, and discusses a way forward for protected areas and other forms of area-based conservation that is not only inclusive but also equitable
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SAGE Support Package (online)
Use the SAGE Support Package to gain the skills to organise and facilitate a governance and equity assessment for a protected area or other area contributing to biodiversity conservation
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Enhancing governance of community-based natural resource management in Zambia
Governance of community-managed protected areas in Zambia is on the decline. IIED, together with Zambia CBNRM Forum, will support stakeholders of six community-managed protected areas to improve their governance and share lessons across the eastern and southern Africa region
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Assessing the social impacts, governance and equity of conservation: SAPA, GAPA or SAGE?
IIED has developed three practical and relatively low-cost tools for stakeholders and rights-holders of a protected or conserved area to assess their social impact, the quality of governance and the equity of conservation
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Site-level assessment of governance and equity (SAGE)
IIED and partners in the SAGE initiative have developed and are rolling out a relatively simple, low-cost tool for stakeholders and rightsholders in protected or conserved areas to assess governance and equity. Building on very positive experiences to date, further scaling up will follow the formal launch of the tool in spring 2022
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Hilsa fish essential to Myanmar local nutrition and livelihoods, and needs protecting
An IIED study has identified when and where spawning hilsa most require protection and highlights the need for different management strategies to ensure the sustainability of this key food source
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IIED publishes guide to assessing governance at protected and conserved areas
IIED has published a guide to a stakeholder-led methodology for assessing the quality of governance at protected areas and other conserved areas.
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Navigating ocean investments
In the first of a new series of ‘Insights’ case studies designed to highlight links between business and sustainability, IIED looks at a business model that could be the key to bridging the marine conservation funding gap.
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CBD COP14: a breakthrough on understanding and assessing equity in conservation
A new international decision recognising the importance of equity in conservation could help tackle the underlying drivers of biodiversity loss
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Communities, livelihoods and sustainable wildlife management
Conservation in Africa is failing. Despite a growth in formal protected areas, wildlife populations are declining. Illegal wildlife trade is a contributing factor but masks wider issues of land conversion, corruption and regressive policies that fail to make wildlife an economically viable land use option for local people
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IIED publishes updated guide to social assessment for protected areas
The new, expanded second edition incorporates practical learning from sites in five countries and strengthens focus on governance and equity
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Enhancing the equity and effectiveness of protected area conservation
IIED worked with partners to institutionalise social equity assessment and action planning at protected areas in Kenya and Uganda
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Why eat wild meat?
There is growing concern that hunting for wild meat consumption is unsustainable and threatening biodiversity conservation and food security across sub-Saharan Africa. But for initiatives that promote alternatives to succeed, they must be based in a strong understanding of why people eat wild meat
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Understanding governance and equity in conservation
A successful multi-stakeholder self-assessment in Uganda’s Lake Mburo National Park enabled local people to judge what does and doesn’t work, and draws out their ideas for action
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Assessing governance at protected and conserved areas (GAPA)
IIED has developed and is now rolling out a relatively simple, low-cost tool for assessing the quality of governance at protected or conserved areas
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Q&A: How can we achieve 'fairer conservation'?
Now is the time to consider understanding and assessing equity in protected area conservation, says Phil Franks
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Equity, inclusion, conservation and the SDGs
What's fair when it comes to conservation? Phil Franks explains how a new research tool is providing some insights
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Equity, justice and ecosystem services: what do we mean?
Conservation efforts are increasingly supposed to achieve equity – but what does this mean and how can it be assessed? Phil Franks shares some ideas that may help
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Ensuring equitable management of protected areas: we're still defining the issues
Last month's once-a-decade World Parks Congress didn't talk enough about 'equity' when managing protected areas — but at least it's on the agenda
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It's time to end conservation injustice
Human injustices in the name of nature conservation have to become a relic of the past. It's time to get serious about human rights at the World Park Congress
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Human Rights Standards for Conservation (Part III)
This discussion paper looks at the mechanisms for redress against injustice available to indigenous peoples and asks: should a body focused on the conduct of conservation initiatives be formed?
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Human Rights Standards for Conservation (Part II)
This paper identifies key documents that contain provisions relevant to upholding the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities in a conservation context
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Human rights standards for conservation: rights, responsibilities and redress
IIED and Natural Justice sought feedback on a series of papers that aimed to be a foundation for clear guidance about the human rights obligations of conservation actors
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IIED at the World Parks Congress 2014
The full programme of IIED activity at this year's World Parks Congress, including news, events, blogs and updates
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Piloting Social Assessment of Protected Areas: some initial reflections
With the global forum on protected areas, the World Parks Congress, just two months away, it's a good time to consider our experience with the Social Assessment of Protected Areas (SAPA) initiative
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Human Rights Standards for Conservation (Part I)
Human rights appeared in international law in the early 1900s when it was widely considered to apply only to states. This discussion paper provides an overview of the evolution of international law and policy as relevant to conservation initiatives, and presents the case that diverse actors such as international organisations, businesses, NGOs and funders, also have responsibilities and obligations for ensuring just conservation
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Time for a new look at social impacts of protected areas
A new framework for assessing the social impacts of protected areas will be key to ensuring conservation is effective, and contributes to human well-being and poverty reduction
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Assessing social impacts of protected and conserved areas (SAPA)
IIED has developed and is now rolling out a relatively simple, low-cost tool for assessing the positive and negative social impacts of protected or conserved areas
